Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-04-28
Life and Work of Henry Ward
Beecher,
BY THOMAS W. KNOX.

| Thomas W. Knox's Life and Work oil
Henry Ward Beecher" has already taker
rank as the standard life of this famOu:
man. 1t is complete, impartial and au
thentic record of Mr. Beecher's public
career and private life from the cradle tt
the grave.
1t tell of his birthplace and early home
of his boyhood and youth how he con
templated running away to sea and the
preparations he made for it of his col
lege days and the pranks he played OF
his marriage of his work as country
minister of his labors for the down-trod
den slave; Of his art as preacher; OF
his power as an orator; of his work in
England during our civil war; of his ed
itorial and political work; Of Plymouth
Church; of the great scandal and charges
made by Theodore Tilton of the memoir
able trial that followed; of his travels in
Europe; of his illness; death, etc.
The author narratcs Mr. Beecher s
struggles and experiences while poor
country minister, when his entire income
was less than three hundred dollars pei
annum. a part of which was paid in corn,
potatoes and other products of the soil.
He tells how at this period in his life,
when an increase of family compelled him
to build larger house to live in, he
hauled the logs himself, and his neigh
bors aided him to put them up. The
whitewash and paint he applied himself.
He chopped the wood, drew the water,
peeled the potatoes, cooked the food,
served it, washed the dishes, and cleaned
up the house. He performed all these
duties and yet rode twenty miles through
the woods and across the prairie to the
log schOolhouse in which religious service
was held, preached. rode back again,
cooked the dinner, preached in his own
church, returned to nurse his sick wife
and attend to the children, got the supper,
and spent the evening in his own prayer
meeting
At the height Of his fame it would have
been impossible to have found a man on
the face of the earth ON whom sun of for
tune shOne more brilliantly than on Hen
ry Ward Beecher. His influence was
great; his income was enormous; he was
in great demand as lecturer and speaker.
Soon, the breath of scandal spread over
the land; suspicious were excited; the
scandal friends were estranged; the
church was in arms; the country rang
with sensational stories, and the outcome
was suit for 800, 200 damages brought
by Theodore Tilton against Mr.. Beecher.
The trial lasted six months. The jury
did not agree. Mr., Beecher's expenses
alone were over 100000. The story is
fully told in this volume, in every chapter
the author weaves in anecdOte after anec-
dote, incident after incident, story after
story.
The fine steel-plate portrait Of Mr.
Beecher is taken from photograph taken
just before his death. 1t also contains
fine portrait of Mrs. Beecher and many
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